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Daily del.icio.us blog posting

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By popular demand (ok, one request), I am putting up instructions on how to have your del.icio.us links posted daily to your blog.

I like this, as feed readers then have a succinct list of interesting sites to show (rather than a sidebar, who goes to a blog anymore?). A list of links is often more interesting than some half-written paragraph of diatribe just to get to the point. (case in point).

How to setup del.icio.us to post daily links

  1. Log into del.icio.us
  2. On the right-side, under “experimental”, choose “daily blog posting”
  3. Click “add new thingy” (yes, it really says “thingy”, those crazy del.icio.users
  4. Fill in the form as appropriate, here is an example:
    • job_name: DailyLinks
    • out_name: (blog user - e.g. delicious)
    • out_pass: (blog password for that user)
    • out_url: http://highearthorbit.com/xmlrpc.php
    • out_time: 3 (approx time to post, in GMT)
    • out_blog_id: (leave this blank)
    • out_cat_id: (category id, look at the id in your blogging software)
  5. Click “Submit Query”
  6. Sometime within the appointed hour (they’re spaced out so neither del.icio.us’s servers, or ping services, are flooded ‘on the hour’) your new links will be posted.

    For this blog, I created a new user, gave that user Author privileges, and created a specific category, bookmarks

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  1. katie says:

    August 25th, 2006 at 10:34 am (#)

    Personally, I generally prefer a half-written paragraph to a list of links — I prefer being able to subscribe to people’s del.icio.us feeds separately from their weblog feed. But then, I imagine a lot of readers don’t know how to do that, so I can see how they’d prefer one RSS feed that includes *everthing*.

  2. Andrew says:

    August 25th, 2006 at 10:48 am (#)

    You definitely have a good point in that del.icio.us already offers feeds that users can subscribe to. But, as you also mentioned, most users probably don’t know about that. Add to the fact that I would get my links on a link-by-link basis rather than as an archived dump.

    At some point I’ll move the daily postings to a sidebar feed or something.

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